Ian McEwan’s latest novel Solar, published today, is a look at climate change through the eyes of a fairly unappealing, middle-aged scientist.
The Observer is disenchanted with the book’s physicist protagonist, a character whose insatiable appetites would seem to act as a metaphor for a world that is surely destroying its own mass consumption.
The Guardian’s Digested read damns it, “Solar Power: No thanks.”
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